Manuscripts Collection
Many of Folwell's correspondents were men and women of distinction, including Matthew Arnold, Arthur Beardsley, James H. Canfield (University of Kansas), John B. Clark, Horace W. S. Cleveland, John R. Commons, Mark Dunnell, Charles W. Eliot (President of Harvard University), Richard T. Ely, Jakob Fjelde, John B. Gilfillan, Albert Bushnell Hart, James K. Hosmer, J. Franklin Jameson, John Lamb, Thomas R. Lounsbury (Folwell's brother-in-law), George H. Morgan, Justin S. Morrill, Cyrus Northrop, Theophilus Parsons, Le Grand Powers, Herbert Putnam, William B. Rising, Maria Sanford, Albert Shaw, Douglas Volk, Thomas B. Walker, Bishop Henry B. Whipple, Andrew D. White (President of Cornell University), and J. Fletcher Williams.
Access to and use of reserve materials requires the curator's permission.
Civil War letters (M36): St. Paul, Minn. : Minnesota Historical Society, 1975. 1 reel ; 35 mm.
Microfilm available for sale or interlibrary loan from the Minnesota Historical Society.
Accession numbers: 1800; 1903B; 1977B; 2017A; 2041A; 2169; 2271; 2316; 2400; 2407; 2410; 2419; 2501; 2512; 2591; 2681; 2740; 2755; 2950; 3051; 3065; 3071; 3334; 3349; 3353; 3394; 3422; 3522; 5108; 5491; 5559; 5774; 5829; 5844; 6081; 7418; 7523; 8108; 10923; 11212; 11362; 11496; 16496
Processed by: Processing staff.
Digitized by: Christopher G. Welter, April 2011
Digitization of reserve material was made possible by the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund through the vote of Minnesotans on November 4, 2008.
Catalog ID number: 1733309
The Northfield bank robbery material is also available on the microfilm edition of the Northfield (Minnesota) bank robbery of 1876: Selected manuscript collections and government records (M468).
Includes carbon copies of typed transcripts of Mary Folwell's Cuban letters.
Includes carbon copies of typed transcripts of Cuban letters.
Includes original typed transcripts of Mary Folwell's Cuban letters.
Includes original typed transcripts of Cuban letters.
Duplicate, incomplete carbon copies of typed transcripts.
Hubbard was Sarah Hubbard Heywood's paternal great grandfather.
Digital version
Includes appendices, notes, and footnotes.
Original draft and copies (Andrews - Hart).
Copies (Hewitt - Winchell).
Attributed to Cassie Mix while visiting the Joseph R. Brown family, these
letters were written by William Watts Folwell. See "A Visit to Farther-and-Gay
Castle" in
Includes copies of
New Ulm includes anti-draft rally (1917).
Includes photocopy of Cole Younger's account of the Northfield bank robbery.
Includes cover letter by Dr. A. E. Hedback explaining how he gained possession of the original.
Digital version
Copy.
Written at age 12.
These volumes are cited as "Author's Notebook" in Folwell's
Contains original letters.
Contains original letters.
Contains copies.
Contains copies.
Contains copies.
Dictated to William Watts Folwell by Mrs. Mary MacMath Bainbridge.
From Winthrop School.
Owned by John Wicks Heywood.
Author unknown.
Kept in Trinidad, Cuba.
Photographs of Cuban scenes, some taken by Mary Folwell, including city, village, military, and sugar plantation scenes.
Parchment in Latin, signed by Richard Stiles. William Watts Folwell (1768-1858) was William Watts Folwell's paternal grandfather. Also includes a note by his descendants explaining history of document.
Peter Bainbridge was William Watts Folwell's paternal grandmother's uncle.
Includes explanatory note by William Watts Folwell dated July 27, 1931.
The chart traces the line of descent from Sir Arthur Bainbridge of Durham, England. Four of his sons came to America possibly around 1700. The chart includes the marriage of Joanna Bainbridge to Thos. J. Folwell in 1828. Also includes positive and negative photographic copies.
Signed by President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.
Signed by Governor David M. Clough and Albert Berg.
Signed by Governor John Lind and Albert Berg. Includes letter of transmittal signed by John Lind.
Words by D.C. Jordahl, music by Gunnar S. Malmin. Signed by D.C. Jordahl and inscribed to "President Emeritus Folwell".
In presentation case; includes transcript of speech awarding diploma.
Signed by Governor David M. Clough and Adjutant General Hermann Muehlberg.
Signed by Governor David M. Clough and Adjutant General Hermann Muehlberg. Appears to be the same document as May 5, 1898, but with later date.
Signed by President William McKinley and Secretary of War R.A. Alger.
Signed by President William McKinley and Secretary of War R.A. Alger.
Signed by President William McKinley and Secretary of War R.A. Alger.
Signed by President William McKinley and Secretary of War Elihu Root.
For volume 1.
For volume 2. From sketch published by Mrs. Abbie Gardner Sharp, Thomas Teakle, and Arthur P. Rose.
For volume 2.
For volume 2.
For volume 2.
For volume 2.
For volume 2.
For volume 2.
For volume 2. From a sketch map by Benjamin H. Randall.
For volume 2.
For volume 2. From a sketch map by George E. Olds; includes a separate explanation also on linen.
For volume 2.
For volume 2. From sketch map by Marion P. Satterlee.
For volume 2.
For volume 2.
For volume 2.
For volume 2.
From a sketch and letter of Charles Roos to Governor Ramsey of September 15, 1862.
For volume 2.
For volume 2. Based mainly on Marion P. Satterlee.
For volume 2.
For volume 2.
Drawn by D.L. Kingsbury.
Drawn by L.F. Collins, under the direction of L.W. Collins.
For volume 2.
For volume 2.
For volume 2.
For volume 2.
For volume 2.
For volume 3. Two variant maps showing similar information.
Annual map for each year.
Two maps with separate explanation sheet.
For volume 3.
Includes linen and paper copies. For volume 3.
For volume 3.
For volume 4.